Paul Johnson wrote:
>> See, if you visit a bazaar, I bet a helpful guy with a Russian accent
>> can sell you a perfectly valid passport for less than $50. Several
>> years ago, a friend of mine actually asked someone at the Stadion
>> 10-lecia in Warsaw, and was led to a guy with a number of blank Polish
>> IDs for ~$25 each...
>>
>> That's about what checking government-issued IDs is worth.
>
> Perhaps in that part of the world, yes.
Oh, THAT part of the world. Wait a minute, what part of the world? Can
you name any country in which you cannot buy fake IDs?
I might have misunderstood you, but you comment sounded like an insult
towards Eastern Europe.